8-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- rapiered — wearing or carrying a rapier
- rareripe — ripening early.
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- repacify — to pacify again
- repaired — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repairer — a person or thing that repairs.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- repraise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- roanpipe — a drainpipe leading down from a gutter
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- unpaired — not matched
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unrepaid — not repaid
- unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.